Eco-News Roundup: Friday August 20

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| Fri Aug. 20, 2010 4:22 AM PDT

News on the environment and health from our other blogs.

Walking Fast: New York has a record low year for traffic fatalities.

Green & Greener: Study shows people over-report their environmental friendliness.

Overruled: Some states don't have authority to enforce health care reform.

Sex Sells: $pread magazine's Will Rockwell talks sex work.

BP's Big Rig: MoJo reporter gets a tour of a BP drilling rig and lives to tell the tale.

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Photo Essays + Slideshows

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Glamorous Photos of Kids Smoking

Frieke Janssens' images of kids and (fake!) cigarettes capture the ugliness and the not-quite-bygone glamour of smoking.

Slideshow: "Enjoy an Ice Cream Cone Shortly Before Lunch"

10 classic ads from the sugar and cereal industries.

Portraits of Addiction

A Manhattan banker shoots portraits of drug abuse, sex work, and homelessness in the Bronx.

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Never Before Seen Photos From Legendary Street Photographer Garry Winogrand

Fourteen amazing scenes of life in America—and hundreds more where that came from.

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